Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful
will easily break through them.
- Anacharsis, to Solon when writing his laws

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who
has care of the community.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Law is a bottomless pit.
- John Arbuthnot,
title of a pamphlet (about 1700)

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power
to change them.
- Aristotle

At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law
and justice he is the worst.
- Aristotle

Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it
be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
which altereth not.
- Bible, Daniel (ch. VI, v. 8)

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the
race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
same, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Bible, Hebrews (ch. XII, v. 1-2)

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but
for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners,
for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of
mothers, for manslayers.
- Bible, I Timothy (ch. I, v. 8-9)

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to
this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Bible, Isaiah (ch. VIII, v. 20)